Singer, pianist, composer Tania Maria (full name - Tania Maria Correa Reis) - Star Brazilian jazz. Differing from childhood nezhenskoy acumen, she was at 13, became the band leader and won the regional competition at home, twenty released her first album Apresentamos. After moving to France in the second half of 1970 it came to international recognition. Tania Maria always wanted to sing jazz music with a strong accent, and not just "priperchivat" elements of jazz, Brazilian popular songs. During a tour in Australia, she met the famous American guitarist Charlie Byrd, who recommended her to producers Concord Records. It was released on the label's most successful album of Brazilian singer Come with Me. The success of the drive to make it popular in the States, where she has successfully worked in the 1980s.
 
Over the years spent on the scene, Tania Maria has performed at all the major jazz festivals in its portfolio of over 25 discs, nominated for Grammy. Performing his beautiful form, she explains fidelity art: "Jazz has always made me free." Judging by the fact that the song of Tania Maria, and it is free from any stylistic framework. This, of course, Brazilian music, but with an obvious bias jazz, elements of R & B, bossa nova, funk, hip-hop. The singer admits: "The more items you put into the music, the better - the more fun. Honestly, I do not think too much when I play. I say to myself: now will be jazz, and now goes Brazilian music. But what to call it - it critics. "